Regular readers will know that I was blogging from last week’s Convergence and Society conference at the University of South Carolina. For PBS Mediashift, I’ve put together a post looking at how journalism schools are using digital tools in the classroom, from geo-tagging to wikis to iPhones: The educational projects showcased at the Convergence and Society conference offered just a snapshot of what is happening in classrooms across North American

US newspapers don’t appear to be making the most of multimedia. A study from Missouri Western State University presented at the Convergence and Society conference in South Carolina found that the US press lagged behind the UK. The study, by Prof Robert Bergland, together with his students, Lisa Crawford, Sarah Noe, & Melody Ellsworth, studied 360 newspapers in the US, chosen at random. Here’s what they found: Video: 65% (97%

Bartosz Wojdynski and Jessica Smith from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill looked at whether there are demographic predictors of online content creation in their presentation at the Convergence and Society conference. Using data from Pew from 2005, they tried to work out whether it is true that young people tend to create more content online than an older generation. They found that this was generally true –

The Convergence and Society: The Participatory Web conference at the University of South Carolina kicked off with a session on convergence and citizen journalism. First up was Thomas Baggerman of Capital University, who has looked at US TV stations application of citizen media. His findings after looking at 103 TV websites confirms what other studies have shown. Most seek to control the kind of content from the public that is

The CBC is facing a period of upheaval and uncertainty as it pushes ahead with plans to integrate its television, radio and online operations. The Tea Makers blog, run by an anonymous CBC staffer, raises some big questions about the process of bringing together the three mediums. It argues that while the idea may make sense on paper, it overlooks the differences between TV, radio and online in Canada: Radio